RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#191 table of contents with links :: Saturday 30 August 2014
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JRL 2014-#191 :: Saturday 30 August 2014
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1. Buzzfeed: 21 Photos That Show The Growing Conflict In East Ukraine.
2. Kremlin.ru: Seliger 2014 National Youth Forum.
3. www.rt.com: ‘Anything US touches turns into Libya or Iraq’: Top Putin quotes at youth forum.
4. Russia Insider: Patrick Armstrong, Here’s Why NATO’s “Evidence” of a Russian Invasion is Completely Unconvincing.
5. RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s Militia Uses Soviet Weaponry From Captured Warehouses – Defense Ministry.
6. Reuters: Pro-Ukraine fighters escape encirclement, others still trapped – Kiev, militia.
7. Politico.com: Thomas Graham, Who Cares About Ukraine? Vladimir Putin does. And let’s be honest: The West really doesn’t.
8. Center on Global Interests: Thomas Graham: No Good Options for the West in Ukraine Crisis.
9. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, There Are No Good Options In Ukraine, But A Guerrilla War Would Be The Worst.
10. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, What about Ukraine and Russia’s other conflict – over gas? Russia and Ukraine are at loggerheads over unpaid gas bills. If they can’t come to terms, Europe could be left out in the cold this winter – literally.
11. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Poroshenko’s claim of Russian invasion is political tactic.
12. Interfax: TV main source of info for most Russians on Ukraine events; over half believe it is unbiased – poll.
13. Democracynow.org: Ukraine Crisis Escalates as Russian Forces Cross Border, NATO Moves to Expand in Region. (interview with Jonathan Steele)
14. The Guardian: Angus Roxburgh, No one knows what Putin’s up to, but sanctions are the west’s biggest mistake. The outcome of the coming week’s deliberations is predictable, but the result could be the partition of Ukraine
15. Moon of Alabama: Ukraine Lost A Battle – West Escalates With More Russia Sanctions.
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia denies invading Ukraine as West claims it has evidence of incursion.
17. Facebook: Graham Phillips, With events heating up in Mariupol, worth remembering how despised the Ukrainian military is there. This video from May 9th, Ukraine’s military entered the city, locals turned out shouting ‘Fascists’, ‘bastards’, ‘scum’, ‘murderers’, even worse.
18. Facebook: Graham Phillips, In this video, from Mariupol on May 9th, a member of Ukraine’s military turns and shoots an unarmed civilian.
19. Kyiv Post: Residents of Mariupol get ready to defend city from Russian troops.
20. http://ukrainereferendum.blogspot.com: Kolomoisky, preparing to blow up the dam DnieproGES in case of surrender of the city.
21. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, The true story of Mark Paslawsky, the only ‘only’ American fighter with Kiev forces.
22. The Vineyard of the Saker: August 29th 15:35 UTC/ZULU Ukrainian SITREP.
23. ITAR-TASS: Poroshenko’s visit to US mere pre-election publicity – expert.
24. The Economist: Ukraine and Russia. War, not peace. The evidence of Russian incursions into eastern Ukraine becomes ever clearer.
25. Twitter: Strobe Talbott (President Brookings Institution), Can anyone think of a more gobsmacking, prolonged lie by a major power than Russia’s over the past 5 months as it made war against Ukraine? [and more]
26. Reuters: Poles recall Nazi seizure of radio station, see parallels with today.
27. Slate.com/Washington Post: Anne Armstrong, War in Europe. Putin has invaded Ukraine. Is it hysterical to prepare for total war with Russia? Or is it naive not to?
28. Kyiv Post: Ukraine moves to shed its non-aligned status in a hope to become a NATO member.
29. Interfax: Interview with Ambassador Alexander Grushko, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO.
30. Washington Post: Full transcript: Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a Security Council Session on Ukraine.
31. The American Interest: Lilia Shevtsova, Putin Ends the Interregnum. Vladimir Putin’s increasingly reckless interventions in Ukraine should force the West to reevaluate everything it thought it knew about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the past two decades of Western policy on Russia.
32. www.rt.com: Alexander Yakovenko, Crisis in Ukraine: A case study in mismanagement.
33. Counterpunch.org: Paul Craig Robert, One After Another After Another. Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie.
34. Counterpunch.org: Mike Whitney, Washington’s “Pivot” hits a Brick Wall. Obama’s “Catastrophic Defeat” in Ukraine.
35. Pew Research Center: Russian poll: Putin faces limited opposition from his public on Ukraine
36. The Guardian: Shaun Walker, Inside Putinworld, where few risk speaking truth to power. Kremlinology is back in vogue, the inner circle contracts and ruthless competition is encouraged among underlings.
